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From: Stef Bon <stef@bononline.nl>
Subject: Re: include a master file: where does the automounter look
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:27:09 +0200
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To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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Ian Kent wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:32 +0200, Stef Bon wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> when I read the manpage for auto.master (and other docs) I see that I 
>> can include another master file by doing:
>>
>> +auto.master
>>
>> The comment says that by doing so, the you can specify a master map 
>> which is found using
>> nsswitch sources.
>> What happens then? Where does it look then?
>>     
>
> If you have a line in /etc/nsswitch.conf like:
>
> automount: files nis
>
> it will look in /etc for auto.master (files) and try to connect to a nis
> server and ask for auto.master.
>   
Ok, it will search for the files first and after that the nis thing.
But here: this line which instructed the automounter to look in the 
nsswitch.conf file is in a auto.master file, and then you instruct it to 
look for the same file again.
This does not make sense to me...

Stef Bon